Amazing. Thank you for sharing Vincent's story. I am Vinnie (Vincent) and I too came to England via Hong Kong in a boat. Here's my story. I was born in October 1977. A year later my entire family (mum, dad, great-aunt, twin brother) fled Hanoi in a boat across the South China Sea to Hong Kong. We also stayed at the Kai Tak refugee camp but we could also freely go anywhere in Hong Kong as closed camps weren't introduced until 1982. We stayed in Hong Kong for 18 months until November 1980 when we boarded a plane from Kai Tak Airport to Gatwick Airport. I've been in England ever since. I cannot read or write Vietnamese but I studied in both state and public schools in England. I am grateful, as were my family, to have been resettled in a peaceful and democratic society. I've been back to Vietnam a few times, but I have no family there. My last visit to Hanoi was earlier this year when I visited to donate money and food to Hanoi Help the Homeless project. I flew twice to Orange County last year where there is a huge Vietnamese population in California, again to help the Vietnamese diaspora.
Dudley Sutton was an amazing actor, a true gentleman & as is clearly evident in this cameo - a genuinely decent human being. Mr. Sutton’s performance in the Lovejoy series as Tinker was brilliant & unforgettable. Thank you Sir 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I only realised incrementally my shared interests he had albeit far to late if I'm honest, I live 2mins away from Trafford General Hospital (formerly Park Hospital) the first national health hospital opened by Aneurin Bevan, both my children born there, and his poetry, which those interested would find my own here on RU-vid, and finally I was in the antiques business, so all in all I have had an affinity and love for Dudley grow as time passed...He was a gifted!!
You know, I am just now learning of Dudley's passing and I am saddened by it. I was raised in Canada by parents who were fairly anti-television when I was growing up and once I was off on my own in the very early 90s I gave TV a try. For the most part I did not like it, but there were a few exceptions and Lovejoy was one of them. Dudley was a big reason for that. He truly was one of the great British character actors of the 20th century and he was a true gentleman to boot. I had always sort of hoped for a Lovejoy reunion film over the years and occasionally I would hear a rumour or two of something in the works but alas, it was not to be. Farewell Mr. Sutton. You had the opportunity to touch a lot of people through your work and you certainly delivered on that. I like to think that you are still out there somewhere, maybe warming the stool of some East Anglian pub, waiting for someone to pick up that next round. Rest easy.
@@gus186 I prefer the Australian model. The NHS is a money pit. Once we exit the EU, all those doom mongers who claim we won't have doctors and nurses will be proven wrong. We used to get health workers from commonwealth countries. It's simply a matter of tweaking needed profession quotas. But even better would be reducing or eliminating university fees in the UK, in exchange for 5 years nhs comittment from graduates. Life goes on outside the eu. The eu is not God.
Actually, the brexit party has totally ignored the left / right paradigm. Claire Fox has become a brexit party mep for example. Kate Hoey campaigned with Tice in "leave means leave". So this concept of "right wing populist" doesn't work. And in fact, as long as the main parties think they can get away with classifying it as "far right" and "populist" they will never come to grips with it. In fact it will only strengthen us because they are proving they simply don't understand. And the more the slap those silly labels on us, the stronger we get. That's the reality.
